Zeki Pasha
Zeki Pasha 1299 (1883) Field marshal | |
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Commands held | Vardar Army, 2nd Army, 4th Army |
Battles/wars | Greco-Turkish War (1897) Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars World War I |
Other work | Private representative of Sultan Mehmed V in Berlin |
Zeki Pasha
Career
He graduated from the
In 1912–1913, he was commander of the
His failure to emplace key artillery hindered the forces under his command and led to their defeat at Kumanovo.[11] During the frantic Ottoman retreat from Kumanovo, a disgruntled Ottoman soldier attempted to assassinate him, contributing to the panic.[12] The Vardar Army; consisting of the VII Corps commanded by Fethi Pasha, the VI Corps commanded by Djavid Pasha and the V Corps commanded by Kara Said Pasha, all under Zeki Pasha's command, retreated to Monastir (present day: Bitola) after the defeat at Kumanovo.[13]
Zeki Pasha established a strong defensive position on the Oblakovo heights northwest of Monastir prior to the battle. However, during the Battle of Monastir, Serbian artillery and infantry managed to defeat the Ottomans. Fethi Pasha was among the casualties.[14]
On 21 November 1914, he was assigned the Ottoman liaison officer to
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Zeki Pasha (bottom left) led the Ottoman delegation that signed the armistice with Russia.
References
- ^ a b Harp Akademileri Komutanlığı, Harp Akademilerinin 120 Yılı, İstanbul, 1968, p. 45. (in Turkish)
- ^ a b İzzettin Çalışlar, On yıllık savaşın günlüğü: Balkan, Birinci Dünya ve İstiklal Savaşları, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 1997, [page needed]
- ^ a b c Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu name, Osmanlı Askerlik Literatürü Tarihi: History of Military Art and Science Literature during the Ottoman Period, İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA), 2004, [page needed]
- ^ Gürbüz, Macit (8 September 2021). "MUKATELE: Humbapetlerle Bejiklerin Savaşı".
Hamidiye Alayları Başkomutanı Zeki Paşa da Çerkes kökenliydi
- ^ Clive Bigham, "A ride through Western Asia" (1897) p.
- ^ Robert Melson, Revolution and Genocide (1992), p. 60
- ^ W. Blackwood, "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" (1897),p.21
- ^ George Shaw/Lefevre Eversley, "The Turkish Empire from 1288 to 1914" (1914), p. 341
- ^ Arman Dzhonovich Kirakossian, "The Armenian Massacres, 1894–1896" (2004), pp. 63–64
- ^ Richard C. Hall, "The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913: Prelude to the First World War" (2000), p. 47
- ^ Hall,p. 48
- ^ Hall, p. 49
- ^ Hall, p. 51
- ^ Hall, p. 52
- ^ Ludendorff: “Meine Kriegserinnerungen”. Berlin, 1919, p. 202